Public health experts were already on edge when President Donald Trump strode to a White House lectern Monday, promising to reveal new answers about autism.
But few were expecting the president’s direct attack on vaccines — a prolonged riff that shocked medical leaders, alarmed some current and former Trump officials and unsettled Republican allies on Capitol Hill, as the president repeated false claims about vaccine safety and called for changes to the childhood immunization schedule.
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